Chapter 271: Chapter 271: Emergency Update, Brand New Patch!

Ren never imagined that Grand Magician Drinkwater’s situation would actually connect to the Tulip Kingdom, much less that the Tulip Kingdom might be related to that signal from before...

Were outside forces already starting to corrupt them?

Actually, that didn’t seem impossible.

"Once the mech is finished, let’s go take a look."

After thinking it over, Ren glanced at the mech that was already 80% complete and said, "We’re not in that much of a rush—just a few more days."

This mech definitely wasn’t as good as the super-powerful mech condensed from his authority, but the success of this mech would truly cause his authority to undergo a qualitative transformation.

The mech summoned and condensed through his authority wasn’t eternally unchanging. As Ren’s strength increased, as faith increased, and as everything under his authority’s management improved, they would all further strengthen the mech he summoned.

Just like after the tech combat forces started using exoskeletons, the mech he summoned was directly enhanced by 30%. That alone said a lot.

The Goddess of Magic thought about it and nodded slightly.

Exactly!

If there were problems, there would’ve been problems three thousand years ago. It couldn’t have waited until now.

Looking at how cautious that black-robed person was, at this stage they probably still had many important things left unfinished. They still had plenty of time. After all, proper preparation pays off!

After confirming the plan going forward, They stopped hesitating and continued strengthening the mech.

Actually, there was another reason They made this choice: if a world-level war really did break out, mass deployment of mechs combined with the first stage of the Tech War Divine Arts—magic conductor control—could rapidly develop a decent combat legion. They could even arm the entire continent.

For some unknown situations, this might have huge benefits.

Book moved quickly. Plus, the features needing to be handled this time weren’t very complex. That evening at eight o’clock, users who were online received an update notification!

[Update Announcement:]

[1. The ’Videos’ feature has launched ’Courses’ service. Click to view details.]

[Courses are a brand new video mode. After any user becomes a teacher, they can select ’Teaching Field’ in the backend and choose the corresponding category.

If you have special qualifications, such as ’Legendary Magician,’ ’Legendary Alchemist,’ ’President of the Church of Creation Association,’ etc., you can also upload them. These will be displayed on the course, ensuring higher credibility.

Courses can select ’Fee Mode’ based on the teacher’s own needs. Note: Before creating paid courses, you must first enable and bind your storefront.

Course fee modes can be divided into...

Course validity periods can be set to "valid for how long after purchase," "valid until what year, month, and day after purchase," or "permanently valid"—three modes...

Teachers can provide students who purchase courses with multiple additional services such as group chat Q&A, livestream Q&A, homework reviews, 1-on-1 tutoring, exams, etc....

Teachers or students can both create study plans...

To ensure student rights...]

[2. Fixed known bugs...]

The moment this announcement came out, it instantly caused a massive stir.

"Dumb question, but what exactly is a BUG? Why does it appear every time?"

"I think it’s probably a general term for small features? When something changes but the change isn’t big, they just mention it like this."

"That actually seems right. Occasionally there are some pretty small changes, but they don’t publish any announcement. This might be it."

"Why does your attention feel a bit off?"

"Isn’t it just the Videos feature releasing a new Courses feature? There’ve already been several updates like this before. Not surprising at all."

"Developing new features isn’t strange, but this timing is really strange!"

"Isn’t it just because they saw Grand Magician Drinkwater selling courses really successfully, so they’re updating some features to make selling courses easier?"

"I think this is a good thing. Everything is super clear with all the rules and regulations. It satisfies teachers’ needs and also solves our students’ rights issues. Plus you can assign homework and stuff. If the teacher’s willing, they can even do one-on-one tutoring. It’s basically the same as real-life teachers now."

"But these features definitely require payment!"

"Isn’t that normal? In reality, if you look for a magician teacher, chances are you’d need to pay too. Here, our mage apprentices can only learn one spell and one basic knowledge book for free. Everything else needs to be bought with money, and every month we have to fulfill three of our teacher’s wishes."

"Wishes?"

"Requirements! Requirements, okay? Like my teacher is proficient in potion-making, so whenever there’s a new potion, we have to test it. I’ve already seen over a dozen apprentices turn into monsters. Compared to that, paying fees is nothing!"

Actually, such miserable apprentices weren’t isolated cases. In the world of magicians, you could say this was extremely common. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the number of people who could become official magicians remained very limited—you could even say rare.

Once these words came out, they immediately resonated with many people. When they looked at the Magic Net’s new announcement again, they felt like the entire Magic Net had undergone some kind of elevation.

Originally, in their understanding, the Magic Net was just a place to chat, ramble, and vent emotions. They never expected that as time passed, the Magic Net would have more and more features and increasingly impact their lives. Never mind entertainment, passing time, chatting, and rambling—just the news, intelligence, videos, and shopping alone had already brought them countless benefits.

Now they were even launching something as godly as courses...

Many people suddenly got the feeling that cultivating magic had become easier.

The communication zone was incredibly lively, and inside various magical organizations, things were obviously even more lively. Some magical organizations even rang the most important bells within their forces, gathering all their top magicians together.

If you could say Grand Magician Drinkwater’s success planted in them a seed of wanting to sell courses, then the appearance and perfection of the Courses feature was the fatal blow that made them absolutely determined they had to pursue this path.

In Black Bone Forest, the Lord of Black Bone Forest, the King of Corrosion, directly issued an order: "All teachers must produce a course within three days. When certifying, everyone certify your Black Bone Forest teacher identity. No need for overly complex courses, and pricing doesn’t need to be too high either. Find your own positioning and show off how powerful Black Bone Forest is."

Black Bone Forest already had a complete teaching system. Almost every permanent magician was either a magic teacher or teaching assistant. In the King of Corrosion’s view, turning the knowledge they’d taught in the past into courses wasn’t anything complicated.

At worst, they’d price things lower. Grand Magician Drinkwater’s basic course was 10 gold coins—their courses could be 5 gold coins, 3 gold coins, even 1 gold coin. That was all fine. What mattered was quantity, speed, and breadth.

Suddenly uploading several hundred courses, all from Black Bone Forest—what would happen to Black Bone Forest’s reputation?

The King of Corrosion got excited just thinking about it!